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You may soon be asked to pay for Snapchat content. Here’s how it works
Snap is hoping to snap up another revenue stream in its quest to reduce its dependency on advertising. The social media company announced on Tuesday that it will begin...
Why the EU just opened a formal probe into Shein
One of the companies best known for cranking out ultracheap goods is facing a serious investigation in Europe over concerns about illegal products and predatory business practices. The EU’s...
Why should you care about quantum computing?
Right now, criminal and state-sponsored hackers are intercepting and storing encrypted data they cannot yet decode. Likely targets include everything from corporate secrets and medical records to legal agreements...
Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond
Nothing is certain, they say, but death and taxes. But a new idea from Meta could add social media to that list. The tech giant was granted a patent...
Magnificent 7 stocks are down for 2 reasons in 2026. The second reason is outside their control
The new year has so far not been kind to the share price of Big Tech stocks, particularly the so-called Magnificent 7. These seven companies—Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft,...
How the uninvestable is becoming investable
Venture capital has long avoided ‘hard’ sectors such as government, defence, energy, manufacturing, and hardware, viewing them as uninvestable because startups have limited scope to challenge incumbents. Instead, investors...
The European Parliament pulls back AI from its own devices
The European Parliament has taken a rare and telling step: it has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and staff, citing unresolved concerns about...
AI FOMO: Where the “I” is not just intelligence, but I, the human
When FOMO ( fear of missing out) first entered popular language, it was about teenagers scrolling through friends’ social feeds and worrying they weren’t having as much fun. But...
Ikea’s resale bet is paying off
If you stop by the “as-is” section at one of Ikea’s U.S. stores, you might now find a vintage table from the 1980s. The company recently started accepting older...
A Waymo vehicle hit a child. What can we learn from the incident?
On January 23rd, outside an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, a Waymo vehicle hit a child. That’s what we know for sure. It sounds shocking, horrifying even. And...
